Paint Chip Contractions ~ Combines my love of paint swatches!!!

Language Arts Paint Chip Contractions Here’s a colorful way for students to practice forming contractions! Make a chart containing words that make up contractions and place it at a center. Also provide a variety of four-color paint chips, paper, and pens. A child selects a paint chip and writes in the first two boxes two words from the chart that, when combined, form a contraction as shown. Next, he writes the new ending (including the apostrophe) in the fourth box. He accordion-folds the last two squares so that the ending replaces the second word to form the contraction. He repeats the process twice and then uses each contraction in a sentence.

paint chips to teach contractions
Who knew you could do so much with paint strips.

paint chips to teach contractions! Who knew paint samples could be used for so many things.